OUR Life. School. Story.

What was your
favorite part of
WOLF Camp?

I enjoyed the bus drive to WOLF
Camp because I spent a lot of
time catching up with my friends.

Raphael Ohebsion, 6th

I enjoyed doing the
team building activities
most because I like
learning form and
working with others.

Zakir Alibhai , 7th

My favorite part of WOLF Camp
was climbing because I liked the
view on top!

Ryan Vindiola, 8th



What's YOUR

FAVORITE SUBJECT?

Art because I like
creating new things.

Raquel Ebrahimian, 2nd

Math because I like working with
numbers and learning new things.

Nolan Riesenberg, 4th

Math because I like
working with numbers.

Jacob Abginesaz, 5th

I like math because
everything is made from math.

Sophia Daneshgar, 1st

Math because it is fun
and easy to learn.

Ariel Emanuel, 2nd

Reading because there is
an adventure in your head.

Ella, 4th

English because it’s always
challenging to me and

I learn new things every day.

Yenna Ko, 8th

History because I love to learn about
the world before I was born.

Michaela Hassid, 7th

Art because I like
to embrace my creativity.

Matea Hassid, 4th

English because I love to explore
new worlds in books beyond
the world that I live in.

Sophia Manavi, 7th

Math because it's fun to
answer hard problems.

Brad Kim, 4th

Mrs. Kamp-Taylor likes to make
collages in her free time, and
she has been able to sell them
at art shows. She grew up in
Germany, but attended a
German/English School. She
fell in love with English
literature when she started
reading historical fiction books
by Taylor Caldwell in 7th grade!

Ms. Rogers became a
teacher because she loved
school as a kid, and wanted
to pass on that love to her
students. She loves
Hawthorne because of the
amazing teachers and
students. Outside of school,
Ms. Rogers loves to coach
competitive cheerleading.

Mr. Tinter is from Minnesota
and used to be an Elvis
impersonator. Before
teaching, he acted on shows
such as “iCarly.” He has
worked in the district for 11
years. He went into teaching
because he always enjoyed
learning, school, and working
with kids.

Ms. Geletko grew up surfing, and
when she retires, she would love
to rescue dogs and pair them
with people whose lives would be
better with these dogs. She
became a teacher because she
thinks that a good quality
education is the key to open so
many doors. She came to
Hawthorne in 1994. "I will miss
Hawthorne but am excited to
teach at a dedicated Middle
school."

Mrs. Long loves art - she and
her husband Chris collect
street art. She worked in
entertainment publicity and
marketing for a big TV network
for almost 7 years before
venturing into teaching. This is
Mrs. Long’s 7th year teaching.
She loves her students! They
keep her young while
simultaneously giving her gray
hair.

Ms. Kim decided to become a
teacher because she wanted
to contribute to society in a
positive way. One unknown
fact about her is that she has
traveled to about 13 different
countries. She loves working
at Hawthorne because of the
great support network of
teachers and administrators.

Mr. Obregon used to be in a
band called The Passengers,
where they wrote and sang
original material. He can play
the bass, rhythm guitar and
drums. He also DJs. Mr.
Obregon decided to become a
teacher because he wanted to
interest students in the world
of mathematics.

Ms. Slaughter became a
math teacher because it
involves reasoning and
problem solving skills. She
loves Hawthorne because her
students motivate her with
their interests and thought
processes. On weekends, she
likes to go to her sons sports
games, travel, and cook.

Mrs. Kertesz loves sports! She
played softball, was on the
bowling team and took
gymnastics and dance classes.
She majored in PE in college,
taking nearly every sports class
possible and decided to teach to
share her passion with kids. Her
first teaching job was as a PE
instructor but was needed to
teach science as well. She loves
the Hawthorne family and will
miss being a part of it.

Ms. Shwartz has been teaching
at Hawthorne for 28 years. She
became a teacher because
wanted to help students find
their passion for learning and
finds joy in watching students
discover the wonders of science!
Outside of school, she enjoys all
sports and outdoor activities.
She hopes to become a
photographer when she retires
to capture beautiful moments in
people's lives and magnificent
scenery while traveling.



Mrs. Federman has three boys.
Her husband, Mr. Federman,
teaches at Beverly Hills High
School. She comes from a
family of teachers (her mom,
her sister, her brother, her
grandmother). It wasn't until
she had her first art class in
10th grade that she knew she
loved art and wanted to share
that passion with kids. She has
taught Art at BV, El Rodeo,
and now Hawthorne!

Mrs. Terranova is a music
teacher at Hawthorne School
in Beverly Hills. She grew up
playing piano, she has had a
passion for music since she
was very young. She loves
teaching at Hawthorne School
because she likes making
students feel proud of their
musical talents.





Mrs. Gutheinz decided to
become a teacher after
attending a class about
teaching young kids music.
She enjoys working with the
Hawthorne community to
create a positive school
culture. She, along with Mrs.
Cress, provides students an
upturned to explore acting
through their musical theater.
During her spare time, she
enjoy sewing and has made
clothing and bags!

Madame Rousseaux is married
and has a young son at home.
She was inspired by a teacher
earlier in her education who had
a positive impact on her. That is
why she wanted to become a
teacher. She loves teaching at
Hawthorne because she has a
wonderful class of students
very interested in French.

Señor Foldvary began as a
Spanish teacher in 2006,
and then as a social studies
teacher at Horace Mann in
2007. He loves being a
Hawthorne Viking, and the
great energy and talent of
the Spanish students at
Hawthorne!



Mrs. Crane became a teacher
because climate change is real
and wanted to educate her
students on the growing issue.
She loves teaching at
Hawthorne because of the
community of teachers,
parents, and students. She
has a daughter named after
the aurora lights, and works
with dolphins every summer.





Mr. Sharmokh is married with
two little girls. In his spare
time, he enjoys hiking, sailing,
and playing volleyball. After
graduating architecture
school, he reflected upon his
life and his most memorable
experience involved teaching
kids to swim. He decided that
he wanted to teach. He loves
teaching yearbook because it
includes elements of graphic
design he learned from college.



Coach Ash was a collegiate
athlete in track and field and
basketball. She continues to run
daily. She wanted to inspire
health and fitness in young
people that lead her into a career
as a physical education teacher.
Coach Ash has two children who
attend the school. She loves
being a part and helping this
community, this is why she at
Hawthorne today!

Coach Paysinger loves sports
and saw teaching as an
opportunity to share this love
with kids. He enjoys coaching
different sports and working with
a variety of age levels. The best
thing about Hawthorne for him is
the change to inspire young kids
to becoming athletes.

Life

Jacob Abginesaz Kevin Broukhim Matt Bueno Audrey Dayani

Gabriel Hatanian Navid Homayouni Ashley Islas

Jayden Mansoury Dylan Moradzadeh Leora Naydavood Ethan Razi

"School is amazing! "Hawthorne has "School is awesome Story
The teachers and many good and kind because of all the
principal are caring people - teachers friends I've made."
and nice." and students."
Leah
Navid Gabriel

Ms. Calderone recently
moved to California from
Chicago where she taught
6th Grade Language Arts.
She especially loves the
warm weather. Ms.
Calderone became a
teacher because she loves
kids and wants to inspire
them to find something that
are passionate about. It is
her first year at Hawthorne
and she's loving it!

Ms. Calderone

School

Dylan Federman Aidan Hadim Ava Hanasab

Leah Kamen Charlotte Kaveh Noah Ko Ariel Kohanchi

Daniella Shay Vivian Shinbrot Aaron Tahoor

Life

Megan Amirianfar Victor Celis Chloe Emein Giulio Greco

Michael Khavarani Daniel Khorsandi Nikka Khoshbin Skyler Marvisi

Haley Scholer Israel Shirian Eila Shokravi

"I want to be a lawyer "I come to school "I like school because Story
and school helps." because I want to be I am around all my
successful when I friends."
Jonah grow up."
Devin
Remy

Mrs. Hess did not always
think she was going to be
a teacher but she always
loved working with kids.
Her brother had a hard
time learning growing up,
and after realizing that
she was not going to be a
famous actress (haha) she
decided that she wanted
to teach to help kids like
her brother get the best
education they can.

Mrs. Hess

Life

Remy Heravi Ryan Homayoon Erik Hsieh

Linor Mehdizadeh Jonah Nassimi Eliana Naydavood Camryn Rezvani

Devin Smith Joelle Tabibian Isabella Zahabian Eli Zakaria

School

Maor Baradarian Ava Benayoun Benjamin Beroukhim Dior Bootehsaz

Rebecca Kohanbashir Yaroslav Kutepov Jonah Nassirzadeh Elijah Naydavood

Ariella Razi Liam Rouben Joshua Rubin

"The teachers at "I like how we get "I like Hawthorne Story
Hawthorne are individual devices. because all of the
really kind and fun - Also, I like my students are friends
we play fun games!" friends at school." with each other."

Micah Elijah Cay

Ms. Snijdewind is half
Dutch and third
generation Angeleno. She
became a teacher because
she loves children and
wanted to make a
difference in their lives.
Mrs. Snijdewind loves
working at this school,
especially because
everybody she works with
is so kind!

Ms. Snijdewind

Life

Brandon Jadidolahi Isabella Khalili Kismet Khanna

Youngjin Ohm Martin Padilla Micah Peyman Chloe Rafaeil

Cay Travish Elliot Turner Chuhan Wen Jonathan Ziv

Life

"I like Hawthorne "I like that everybody is "I like how we get to
because people are friendly. I made a lot of learn a lot and have
nice. I play basketball, friends here. I can fun. I also like the
so the basketball always trust the yard people."
courts are my aids too."
favorite." Donald
Ella
Aiden

Dmitry Bozniakov Jason Cohanim Alegra Davis Ella Edery

Jessica Khazan Jonah Matian Daniel Nafeh

Sydel Nouray Aiden Rabbani Sasha Sanieoff Donald Sipes

Story

Mrs. Smith came from a
family of teachers, so from
a young age, she knew she
wanted to be a teacher!
Mrs. Smith was hired as a
kindergarten teacher at
Hawthorne in the summer
of 1995 and later became
the art teacher before
coming to 4th grade. A
fun fact about her is that
she went to school with
Mr. Waters!

Mrs. Smith

School

Willow Hebroni Justin Javaheri Nicole Katiraie

Julia Nation Dylan Naysan Simon Nazmifar Alexis Neman

Shiloh Sohoza Analia Teodosio Avilez Ryland Van Rossum

Life

"I like Hawthorne "My favorite school "I like Hawthorne
because it is a school subject is math because I love art."
where nothing bad because I'm good at it
happens." and it comes easy." Chloe

Netanel Aaron

Ariel Ahdoot Aaron Artal Lidan Benmoshe Netanel Dahan

Aaron Keinan Claire Khodabash Dahae Koo

Himuka Nishihara Spencer Platt Ethan Ricks Nolan Riesenberg

Story

Mrs. Timmerman has two
kids and especially hates
tomatoes. After she
graduated from UCLA, she
traveled the world for a
few years and had a short
career as a paralegal. She
then wanted a job where
she could positively
contribute to society. She
taught in a small city
called Lennox, then, got
hired here 25 years ago.

Mrs. Timmerman

School

Nima Farnad Matea Hassid Filip Jensen

Chloe Lau Isabel Marin Arina Markina Martin Nicolas
Rangel De Alba

Rafaella Rodinoff Michelle Shekhtman Elle Shim

Life

"I have so many friends "I like Hawthorne "Hawthorne is a nice
here. Also the teachers because I have nice school, with a long
are very kind." friends, nice teachers, history. I also like
and it feels like home." Hawthorne because of
Jasmine my friends here."
Gabriel
Amara

Amara Ash Cash Banagas Roni Baram Jasmine Cohanim

Joshua Kahen Brad Kim Mia Mandaloniz

Bob Sheen Sienna Shirian Gabriel Straub Aaron Vahedi

Story

Ms. Wong became a
teacher because of her
mom. She grew up
watching her mom teach
high school students and
create lifelong
relationships. This is her
second year at Hawthorne
and Ms. Wong loves it!
Everyone is sweet and
helpful - kids, staff and
parents.

Ms. Wong

School

Steve Garcia Oren Hatanian Gill Hoffman

Esther Min Emily Platt Shaya Roofian Eliana Shaham

Joanna Xia Faith Zarnegin Michael Zokaeim

School

"I like Hawthorne "I like my class because "I like P.E when we have
because we have we do tons of math and free time and we can
recess and we do fun it is fun. We do a lot of play with the frisbees
stuff." fun things." and play basketball."

Tristan Elior Nicholas

Elior Benayoun Benjamin Brodin Samuel Dickes Mason Firoozmand

Kyra Kapur Vietel Krauss Mila Lucas-Doyle Tristan Mehr

Nicholas Partielli Shaya Sabar Shayna Samouha

Story

Ms. Hemphill finally got Life
her puppy after waiting for
the perfect time! She
always enjoyed playing
teacher as a child and she
had an inspiring second
grade teacher named Mrs.
Farrell. Ms. Hemphill
wanted to become a
teacher to be a part of the
foundation that helps mold
students into what they
will become.

Ms. Hemphill

Milana Groysman Isabella Jadidolahi Ashton Kamjoo

Daniel Moradzadeh Baran Naim Leona Nissani Shahran Omrani

Amadea Setian Shawn Shokravi Eli Vahedi Aiden Zahabian

School

"The teachers here are "I would say that this "I like cheerleading
very nice and teach the school is welcoming because I'm the flyer on
awesome material." because everyone is the team and I get to
nice and the teachers be in the air."
Melanie welcome you."
Sophia
Benjamin

Shaily Benamara Joseph Cohen Melanie Fard Sophia Gabbay

Joy Hsieh Adonis Khalili Egor Khvan Bijou Lucas-Doyle

Lena Shokravi Miriam Siragusa Ariela Tehrani

Story

Mrs. McDonald's father
taught her to love planting
and nurturing nature when
she was young. She keeps
a tortoise in her classroom
to teach students how to
care for others. Her
grandfather was a teacher,
which inspired her to
become one. Hawthorne is
like a family to her and
everybody here are like
brothers and sisters.

Mrs. McDonald

Life

Siena Goldman Benjamin Hacker Ethan Hatanian

Ella Mehdizadeh Noah Rahmani Brighton Sagal Ashton Shadgoo

David Unger Ethan Uzzan Evan Yashar Ryan Yousefi

Life School

Justin Aziz Milan Banafsheha Seth Braverman Jason Chadorchi

Chloe Kaveh Aaron Lau Sunday Magdalena Emily Mehdizadeh

Sana Nishihara Baran Omrani Emely Paredes
De Leon

"I love Hawthorne, "I like Hawthorne ''Teachers teach me
because I get to see because I like the very well here, and I
my friends and become teachers, they are love to learn."
educated." super nice."
Seth
Raquel Ariel

Ms. Palmigiano loves
teaching second grade at
Hawthorne because she
not only loves teaching
seven year olds about
Warm Fuzzies, but she
loves her "Hawthorne
Family." She loves to play
tennis, practice Iyengar
Yoga as well as Palates
when she is not teaching
at school.

Ms. Palmigiano

Story

Raquel Ebrahimian Ariel Emanuel Blake Kashani

Riley Metcalfe Matai Mizrahi Madelyn Monempour Sienna Naysan

Charles Ravaei Matthew Riesenberg Daniel Shekhtman Jonathan Zokaeim

Life School

Jaden Aziz Abigail Betesh Kylie Esmaeilzadeh Jai Hathiramani

Layla Kahen Yashar Khakzad Eliana Lalezary Nathan Lau

Chloe Ohana Ryan Rafie Audrey Rezvani

"I like my class "I like Hawthorne ''I like my class
because we get to do because the yard is so because math is fun
plays about different big and I have a lot of and my teacher likes
stories." places to play!" to read to us."

Audrey Jaden Eliana

Mrs. Whitney is married
with three children, one of
which played water polo in
Hungary. She was
inspired to become a
teacher by her first grade
teacher Mrs. Leepack and
got a taste of it early as a
swim instructor. She loves
teaching at Hawthorne
because of her colleagues,
who are like a family to
her.

Mrs. Whitney

Story

Behdad Jadidolahi Shaylin Javaheri Minkyung Jung

Maxwell Leigh Ekaterina Markina Gia Mejia Benjamin Monavari

Ryder Ricks Michael Sedgh Ren Soloway Talia Zarrabi

Life

Orel Baradarian Linoy Benmoshe Caden Copenhaver

Louis Ho Neo Hsieh Michal Jaraczewer

Oriane Shikuri Joseph Tesler Callia Chunan Wen

"I love school because "I love my school Story
i get to make things in because I have the
the Makerspace!" best teacher, Ms.
Nation!"
Katelyn
Jonathan

Mrs. Nation started as a
special education teacher
before transitioning to
first grade. She was
inspire by a college friend
who was pursuing a
career in education. She
has two children who
attend Hawthorne, one of
whom is graduating this
year! She loves her
Hawthorne family and
promotes school spirit.

Mrs. Nation

Sophia Daneshgar Arieh Fard Ariya Hebroni

School

Joshua Kasher Jonathan Marzouk Audrey Sabzerou

Katelyn Yeshova Yutong Zhan Adam Zinati

Life

James Allan Ashton Amirianfar Liraz Baradarian

Yahli Hoffman Brooklyn Jourabchi Liam Kamjoo

Joley Reitman Tyler Saed Kayla Samouha

"I like school because "I like Hawthorne Story
I get to play with my because of recess. At
friends. I like reading; recess, I play on the
I learn new words." monkey bars.

Liam Miles

Mrs. Potroak has run two
marathons, Boston and
LA. She became a teacher
because she enjoys
hearing all her students'
creative ideas. Mrs.
Poltorak looks forward to
coming to school each day
because she has the
privilege of teaching first
graders how to become
better readers!

Mrs. Poltorak

Benjamin Dattner Miles Fu Chloe Ha

School

Adrian Makoui Leena Mejia Nathan Moossazadeh

Suri Taheri Ian Yashar

Life

Ariel Afgham James Barrios

Ariela Kashanian Benjamin Kohanbashir

Ashlyn Rezvani Nicholas Sanieoff

"I love the education "I love doing math and Story
at Hawthorne." having fun playing
with my friends."
Ariel
Eli

Ms. Pomerantz used to
preform improvisation in
Hollywood. Then, she
became a teacher because
she loves kids and wants
them to be able to reach
their fullest potential. She
came to Hawthorne about
two years ago, starting as
an EL teacher. She is now
a first grade teacher and
has a great passion for
her job.

Ms. Pomerantz

Amy Betesh Ariella Dattner Mason Hussain

School

Eli Nikravesh Aaron Nissani Chloe Rahimi

Alpha Tesler Aiden Vosoghi

Life

"I like Hawthorne because "Counting down the dates
I get lot's of prizes." of the claender with my
class."
Romeo
Michelle

Aunika Berdjis Jasmine Emanuel Romeo Gerecht

Gia Ives Samuel Keinan Gabriella Levin

Theophilus Ning-Liu Michelle Noohian Davina Saghian

Story

Mrs. Cress' teaching
career started in 1997
when Ms. Palmigiano
introduced her to
Hawthorne. She was
originally interested in the
idea of early literacy and
eventually took her to
teaching the same class
she has been for the last
20 years, kindergarten!

Mrs. Cress

Sydney Goldman Hudson Helstein Hassan Iddrissu School

Brandon Monempour Aiden Naiem Adam Nikoo

Elana Schilleci Diana Unger James Wilkins

Life

"I like reading with my "We play games at "I like recess because I
reading buddies" school that I really like." like to play on the
monkey bars."
Matthew Jordi
Nicole

Liram Benayoun Dylan Edery Cyrus Golshani Jordi Hernandez
Reyes

Chloe Khaloyan Joshua Khosnood Matthew Mandalnoliz Noya Mizrahi

Aaron Pirian Andrew Rahmani Diana Sergeeva
Megre

Story